The Southeast Asian Games are more of a local flavor, unlikely to get any sort of global pub unless something big happens. Well, it happened, and under tragic circumstances, as fans unable to get tickets for the final in Jakarta between the hosts and Malaysia burned down two ticket booths, while the pregame resulted in a stampede of those attempting to get in (possibly without tickets?

After being in Malaysia for two weeks to cover the three EPL teams with Futbolita.TV, our lens have shifted to the World Cup qualifiers! Tomorrow, key games in the World Cup qualifiers will be played out including Palestine vs Thailand, Philippines vs Kuwait, Hong Kong vs Saudi Arabia, Yemen vs Iraq and Malaysia vs Singapore.

Let's be honest: not much is expected out of Malaysia from a footballing perspective. Moderately decent refereeing is, however, a basic expectation all across the globe, if rarely achieved.

Especially when it's the Lilliputian underdogs taking on the mighty monstrosity that is Chelsea, who beat the Malaysian All-Star XI on this sham of a goal by Didier Drogba.

Kuala Lumpur rolls out the red carpet for Chelsea today against a Malaysian XI. Some 84K will be in attendance. You can catch the game on Fox Soccer Channel (8:30am EST) or ChelseaTV.

We'll be here chatting it up. Join us.

Bane, death stare

Took me long enough to get this up.

Here's the slideshow of the second day (training day).

And here's the slideshow of the third day (match day)

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Many a great Liverpool banner or flag has adorned Anfield and many a stadium throughout the world and here is yet another great one to add to the collection.

As Liverpool ran out 6 v 3 winners over a Malaysian XI on Saturday this one was spotted by Melissa Reddy @1stLadyofFooty and posted out on Twitter.

Very late with this I know but my couch has missed me these past week and I can't go on ignoring it any more. After 2 days of following them everywhere, my body failed me on this final day. Only time I got out of the house was to go to the stadium to attend the long awaited friendly match.

I know the staple matchday food and beverage for those going to Ashburton Grove involves plenty of alcohol but here in Malaysia, that is not our culture.

Liverpool vs Malaysia Score Highlights 2011 6-3 Video Goals is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Liverpool vs Malaysia Score Highlights 2011 6-3 Video Goals is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Liverpool vs Malaysia 2011 Friendly Score:- Liverpool vs Malaysia 6-3 ( Adam, Ngog*2, Rodriguez*2, Kuyt/ Rahim, Sali*2) 16th July 2011- Pre-Season Friendly Liverpool beat Malaysia 6-3 in an nine goal thriller to record their second [.

Kickoff from Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur 5:45PM Local/10:45AM GMT/5:45AM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on ESPNUK in England and FSC in America, as well as on LFCtv live and online for those with a season pass.

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Liverpool:

Liverpool are getting set for their second preseason friendly of the Asian tour, and it's being widely reported that Kenny Dalglish has flown back to Liverpool to complete the signing of Stewart Downing.

As from the start of the 2010/2011 season, The Gunning Hawk can no longer embed match video highlights inside articles so all we can provide to our readers are links to websites which have uploaded ...

The Game It might as well be only pre-season but today's game has yet again demonstrated how easy it is for "new" players to settle down at Arsenal. Carl Jenkinson and Ryo Miyaichi in the first half, ...

The Game Finally, football is back. After weeks and weeks of speculation, lack of new signings and long trips to reach Asia, today we officially kick-off our pre-season friendly campaign. With Manuel Almunia, Nicklas Bendtner and the ...

The second day of the Asian Tour started with a morning training session. At least that is what the session is supposed to be called. However, the time was between 10:30am to 11:30am. That is poor planning on the part of the team/organizers. That is normally the time of the hour where the heat is at it's peak in Kuala Lumpur.

A four-year partnership agreement between the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia will see an exchange of youth-based clubs in their respective domestic leagues and cup tournaments from 2012. Singapore will be represented in the Malaysian Super League, Malaysia Cup and FA Cup by the Singapore Lions, a team comprised of U-23 national players, five players

Arsenal signings 2 1 Arsenal sales

Arsenal: Specialists in snail-paced transfers. The good news is that Gervinho has definitely signed or at least, he'll "shortly join" us "subject to a regulatory process". If Cesc and Nasri's summer represents the longest goodbye Wenger disagrees on this point, vehemently then Gervinho's has without doubt been the longest hello.

For an oversea Gooner like me, once a while Dennis Bergkamp decides that I should get rewarded. The last time that happened was in 2005, when Arsenal won their last major trophy. Yesterday the throngs of South East Asian Gooners and I was rewarded again. Arsenal was in town and I was not going to miss this for anything.

Ian Ayre, Managing Director of English Premier League football club Liverpool, has confirmed that "almost half" of the club's total revenue "now comes from international markets." Addressing questions from readers of The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, he explained that the club sourced local income in that coountry from "media revenue from the Premier League TV rights shown in Malaysia and from

Malaysian-listed Genting Group has become the shirt sponsor for English Premier League club, Aston Villa. Its subsidiary, Genting UK, the largest operator of casinos in Britain, entered into an agreement to have the Genting mark and logo on both Villa's home and away shirts. Genting UK executive deputy chairman Peter Brooks in a press statement said the sponsorship was "a natural fit" and marked

If betting on football was legal in Malaysia, the most popular game this month would surely be which of three English Premier League clubs visiting Kuala Lumpur in July will attract the biggest attendance at the 80,000-capacity National Stadium in Bukit Jalil. Malaysian selections will play Arsenal on 13 July, Liverpool on 16 July and Chelsea on 21 July and organisers have set the same ticket

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained a Selangor state football coach over match-fixing during the President's Cup U-20 youth tournament and charged Singaporean R.K. Rajendran, a bookie, with match-fixing in connection with the same tournament. Another football coach, from Negeri Sembilan state, Yusarman Yusof, was charged with match-fixing earlier this month.

Tan Sri Annuar Musa, Deputy President of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), has announced that a national women's football league will kick off next year with a similar format to the men's Malaysian League. "I am confident that the idea will be well received [by] the states," he told Bemama news agency.

"As suspended Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam departs Zurich fighting bribery allegations, soccer in his continent of Asia struggles to combat match-fixing, violence and money issues that threaten to tarnish the Qatari's belief that the future is Asia," a Reuters report has concluded.

Three British clubs will tour Asian cities in the Premier Leagues' off season. Two EPL London clubs, Arsenal and Chelsea, will play against a Malaysian XI in Kuala Lumpur; Arsenal on 13 July and Chelsea on 21 July. Arsenal will subsequently play Chinese Super League side Hangzhou GreenTown on 16 July and Chelsea will play the Thai All-Stars in Bangkok on 24 July.

Arsenal Heading For Asia by Max Baker Arsenal Football Club is heading to Asia for their 2011/2012 pre-season tour Chief Executive Ivan Gazidis confirmed. The tour will consist of two matches, the first in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur against a Malaysian XI on July 11 and the second in China where the Gunners [.

It's a few days till the end of the football season, and we've already received word about next season's festivities! So what's in store? Real Madrid are heading to China for their pre-season tour while Barca will be jet-setting to the USA (according to our friends at the club!

This isn't a post about the World Cup bidding process fix we all knew was in and we are just starting to learn the details about, but a follow-up to Monday's discussion of Fifa's supposedly aggressive initiative to tackle match-fixing around the world.

It's been admitted by Fifa that hundreds of games have been fixed in the past few years.

Thailand's U23 Olympic squad overcame their Malaysian counterparts by two goals to one in a friendly match at Rajamangala Stadium on Thursday evening. Both managers used the game to take a look at their players ahead of the 2012 Olympic qualifying campaign that begins later in the year.
Chayanan Phombuppha put the Thais in front after a quarter of an hour, a lead they held until the 71st minute when Ibrahim scored for the visitors.

Congratulations to Malaysia for playing out the final game against Indonesia in good spirit despite effectively winning the cup with their away goal at the 54th minute to put them 4-0 on aggregate. One day Indonesia's patriotic surge of support for Timnas will be put to good use in building an inclusive youth and recreational football policy and system, a clean and well-managed professional